Why do most people on jobseekers claim that they cant find a job when the government is having to bring in Polish immigrants to fill jobs that british people do not want to do? This suggests that there must be work out there.
Would the government not be better forcing the british people back to work?
2006-10-30 20:43:25 · 20 answers · asked by Catwhiskers 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
You will notice I made a point of saying JOBSEEKERS ALLOWANCE and not invalidity or disability. I hope the capitals make it clearer.
People on jobseekers are able to work.
2006-10-30 21:08:47 · update #1
Just to clarify I am talking about people who have been "looking for a job" for a year or more.
I realise that sometimes being out of work cant be avoided for short periods and have been in the situation myself.
The difference is I took the first job I could get whether I liked it or not!
2006-10-30 22:59:19 · update #2
When we were in trouble any job did,at one point I had three jobs at the same time,there are jobs but as long as gov pay these ppl to sit at home get drunk and have more kids(Vicky Pollards) we the taxpayer will have to suffer.Can I make a prediction in the future we will split into two classes those who are intelligent living in forts and trying to keep out the unintelligent who are trying to steal rob and murder to survive.Evolution will eventually sort it so the morons will die out(We hope).
2006-10-30 20:57:37 · answer #1 · answered by Francis7 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wow, you people really are ignorant aren't you?
Im on Jobseekers allowance, and ive just left University with a Combined BA under my belt. I cant get a job. Why? Because our focked up education system doesnt entail any 'experience', which companies demand these days.
And no, i dont want a job as a flaming berry picker if i've spent the best part of 9 grand training to be a Teacher, so i need some support to help me while i get a place. Im even having to resort to Volunteering in a school to get 'experience'.
Dont blame all of us for some of the leechs in the system
NB
Flipit actually has a good point, some areas don't have all that many jobs. Ever visited the Black Country, near Birmingham? We're economically dead, apart from one horrendous Shopping Centre, so what choices do we have?
2006-10-30 21:28:32 · answer #2 · answered by thomas p 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think the major problem are those who claim this benefit and work "cash in hand" at the same time. These are the real parasites.
If you consider people who want to work but can't find a suitable job to cover living costs, compared to people who deliberately avoid working you will find a reduction in the numbers. There have been some major company closures lately. Do you consider these people to be spongers? At the moment there are major concerns in Wales over a major take-over of Corus by an Indian steel producer. I wonder how long it will be before those people loose their jobs?
We must be mindful that it is not always the fault of the individual.
2006-10-30 21:58:06 · answer #3 · answered by LYN W 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree... but perhaps there are no jobs they are skilled to do in the area they live in? Or simply no jobs!
The choices would be to move to an area they can find work that they are skilled to do (probably the south-east of England, as usual) or maybe the government should make more effort to make businesses set up shop local to them by giving them tax breaks to do so and improve the present transport infrastucture?
They could then invest the money they would pay for job seekers, instead of giving them money to find jobs, in training those people (a bit like a kid on work experience) until they achieve the skills needed before paying them a proper wage.
That way people get jobs and training. People do not need to move to an already over populated part of the UK - the south east. Businesses benefit by cheaper rates and tax breaks and good transport and then everybody is happy!!!!
Importantly we would not need to have so many forigners working here and less people sponging.
2006-10-30 21:28:19 · answer #4 · answered by Flipit 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I hate it when people say that they cannot get work, my partner has been made redundant twice in the last 12 months, and has in total claimed 2 weeks worth of benefits, he got out there and got a job straight away.
It is not the job he wants but it will pay his half of the bills and his expenses until he can find something better.
Even when he went to claim they would not give him hardly anything I was expected to support him and pay all the bills and rent. We would have been left with exactly £15 per week for food not to mention travel costs for me to get to work etc. We got nothing when we could have needed it (fortunately he found a job)! So even when I did go we got nothing in reality and we have always paid our taxes since leaving school.
I dont think anyone would work if they did not have to but the fact that I have to pay nearly £400 tax per month and all I get back for it is my bin emptied once a week is really annoying. If these people went to work and stopped scrounging off the rest of us we could all have a nicer country to live in.
I think they should force people back to work and if there is no work people should have to do "community tasks" to get their benefits, say spend 10 hours a week doing elderly peoples gardens or picking up litter! Something that would pay the working people back for how much it costs them every month.
2006-10-30 23:26:12 · answer #5 · answered by cassie s 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you i am on jobseekers but where i live there is no work honestly i have a car so i can easily commute. If i had any other ways i would not sit at home and take money but i have worked all my life so i have contributed to our society. So I am not sponging!! saying that i have only been on jobseekers 1 month and i have been educated you need to address the lazy ones who refuses to work and breed to get money for the DSS not people who have lost their jobs with no fault of their own!!
2006-10-30 22:05:15 · answer #6 · answered by jules 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I see what you saying but you cant force people to work because when they get there they will just do nothing or something to get the sack and employers havent got time to mess about with people like that. Some people are out of work for genuine reasons and it does take them a little while to find a job, but some people have been on job seekers for years and years and there is no excuse for that. Also if you have never paid anything in its not fair that you should take anything out.
2006-10-30 21:00:55 · answer #7 · answered by bez 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the main problem is the high cost of everything from rent & council tax to prescriptions that is the problem. These are free on jobseekers allowance but are so expensive if you are working that many people cannot afford to work or are better off claiming benefits.
I've worked it out and if I claimed benefits I would be much better off than I am now
2006-10-30 20:48:47 · answer #8 · answered by madamspud 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
He could make a declare for none contribution based benefit that's skill examined,in different words he will acquire no longer something while you're working and your earnings brings you above the poverty point.I relatively have worked 27 years and acquire no longer something because of the fact that I relatively have been unemployed for over six months.the main demanding area is that like your better half i'm no longer on the "expert" count sort of the unemployed ,some might argue that there are over a million in this occasion.As for immigrants they have an identical regulations as we do ,so no longer a sturdy theory to have in the past as you would be classed as racist.
2016-11-26 20:31:48 · answer #9 · answered by acebedo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Job seeker's allowance needs to be monitored more closely. I regularly have people applying for work who don't even bother turning up for interview. They are just going through the motions in order to prove they are actively seeking work. The job centre should record every event in the job seeking process and stop the benefits of those who can be proven to be failing to take reasonable steps to secure employment.
2006-10-30 20:49:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋